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Boston University’s School of Law hosted a three-day virtual conference last week for scholars to discuss marijuana laws in the United States and the future of marijuana. VIVIAN MYRON/ DFP FILE

BU Law invites scholars to discuss marijuana law in US, plans for future

Yiran Yu November 19, 2020

As a source of many heated debates, marijuana legalization has been a controversial yet compelling topic in both academia and the general public. Boston University School of Law hosted a three-day...

Boston University’s Network of Enlightened Women chapter serves as a space for conservative college-aged women to connect and feel empowered. COURTESY OF NETWORK OF ENLIGHTENED WOMEN

Young, diverse women share collective voice in current Republican Party

Daily Free Press Staff November 4, 2020

By Alex Ross (contributor) There is more to the Boston University chapter of Network of Enlightened Women than the name implies. While they’re an all-college-aged group focused on female empowerment,...

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Canceled: True progressives cannot be friends with conservatives

Bini Ollivier-Yamin November 3, 2020
If we are able to exorcise Trump from office, your conservative friends will still be conservative, and that’s still gross. Stop being friends with gross people, or at the very least, stop bragging about your email exchanges with them on Twitter.
Gabriella Aponte

2020 Breakdown: Is the president of the United States truly above the law?

Gabriella Aponte September 17, 2020
How many times have you turned on the television in the last four years to yet another news story about President Donald Trump possibly breaking this or that law?
EDITORIAL: Bob Woodward missed the journalistic mark by withholding valuable information from the public

EDITORIAL: Bob Woodward missed the journalistic mark by withholding valuable information from the public

Editors September 11, 2020
Woodward is most famously known for reporting on Watergate — the scandal that shook America so hard Nixon had no choice but to resign from office. Woodward did not hesitate to expose the truth then, and his reasoning for the delay now is shaky.
From left to right: KP Powell, Benjamin Evett, Bobbie Steinbach and Aimee Doherty in “1776” at the New Repertory Theatre. COURTESY OF ANDY BRILLIANT/ BRILLIANT PICTURES

REVIEW: New Repertory Theatre’s ‘1776’ is diverse, but can’t compete with ‘Hamilton’

Hannah Edelman December 6, 2018
The day-to-day struggles of John Adams in the late 18th century are not exactly attention-grabbing, except in production "1776."
STROINSKI: Specter of weed monopoly

STROINSKI: Specter of weed monopoly

Anna Stroinski April 6, 2017

Last Sunday, funnyman John Oliver spoke, in great detail, about the gray area of marijuana legality in the United States. It was a fantastic bit and I urge you to check it out. Like Mr. Oliver, I want...

JOHNSTON: Way to go, Weiner

JOHNSTON: Way to go, Weiner

Andrew Johnston November 3, 2016

Just like that, America is bombarded with yet another firestorm of publicity after the recent decision by the FBI decision to look into more emails possibly related to Hillary Clinton. FBI Director James...

Neta Crawford, a political science professor, speaks at the “Trump v. Clinton: How Does 2016 Compare" event Thursday in the Law Auditorium.  PHOTO BY LAUREN PETERSON/ DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Professors discuss the 2016 election at the Gitner Lecture

Danny Anduze October 21, 2016

Approximately 70 students and professors gathered Thursday night in the Boston University Law Auditorium, where professors engaged in discussion with the BU community and the public on this year’s...

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks during a February campaign stop in Boston. Clinton has raised millions of dollars more in donations from Massachusetts supporters than Republican candidate Donald Trump. PHOTO BY KELSEY CRONIN /DFP FILE PHOTO

Clinton leads Trump in Mass. presidential campaigning

Dave Sebastian September 26, 2016

All candidates who ran or are running in the 2016 presidential election have raised a total of over $25 million in Massachusetts up until the end of August, with $13 million going to Democratic nominee...

RENNER: Biden's plan to cure cancer lofty, but impressive

RENNER: Biden’s plan to cure cancer lofty, but impressive

Elise Renner January 21, 2016

And the war against cancer rages on. In President Barack Obama’s 2016 State of the Union Address, he endorsed Vice President Joe Biden’s “moonshot” plan to cure cancer. Biden first announced his...

Investigative journalist Bob Woodward, left, discusses his novel "The Last of the President's Men" during a conversation moderated by David Gergen at the First Parish Church in Cambridge on Tuesday night. PHOTO BY SARAH SILBIGER/DAILY FREE PRESS STAFF

Bob Woodward calls for clear-watered, open-gated politics

Samantha J. Gross October 21, 2015

Bob Woodward, the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who broke the Watergate scandal with colleague Carl Bernstein for The Washington Post in 1972, visited Cambridge Tuesday to promote his...

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